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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Just about every major politician and business leader sings about the need for a return to economic growth.While some have been asking if recession or even depression is the only thing that might halt the relentless rise in global carbon emissions the reality is that emissions carry on rising at around 3% and the role [...]
HOT DEALS – Cheap flights to exotic Pakistan
Friday, August 6th, 2010CHEAP HOLIDAYS ABROAD!!!!! BOOK NOW, BEFORE THE FLOODS SUBSIDE* Amazing opportunities! Washed away with excitement? BBC reporter Orla Geurin recently pondered whether the Taliban will take advantage of the terrible ‘natural’ disaster in northern Pakistan (1600? body count on day 1, 4million affected, 1.5 million kids at risk of drowning, disease, hunger) But WHY not [...]
Jeff Rubins on economic growth, localisation and energy?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Does economic growth depend on cheap energy, specifically oil? Can we decouple growth from increased energy use? Can we shift to a lower energy, more energy efficient economy? Will we simply move from flying to taking high speed rail and electric cars? What will society look like and what will happen to the global economy? [...]
My dad is a great optimist. . . .
Friday, October 30th, 2009My dad is a wonderful and optimistic man, he believes in the ingenuity of man to technofix our greatest challenges such as climate change and energy scarcity. He often sends me articles like this in the Vacouver Sun. A $1.3-billion technological upgrade to Canada’s air-traffic-control system is taking off in another way: It will bring [...]
Sign of the Times – The battle over Heathrow
Monday, January 12th, 2009Whilst thumbing through the Times today I came across a full page advert that stopped me in my tracks. No doubt placed in part to coincide with the protests against a third runway being held at Heathrow. Tackling climate change is again and again referred to as the single most important issue to face mankind. [...]
10,000 planes – A GreenThing film
Friday, January 9th, 2009This is a great little film, Stay Grounded, from the guys at The GreenThing. Someone asked me last night “how hard is it never flying?”. . . well I occasionally find the idea appealing on one level but really once the false connection with holiday is broken it’s not such a big thing. I enjoy [...]
What will all the engineers and scientists do when civilisation collapses?
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008I am going to be wildly optimistic as there is little point in anything else and I’ve been getting very depressed about our chances of averting civilisation crushing climate change lately! I still can’t persuade too many of my friends to cycle to Cornwall or train to Scotland, rather than taking a plane to the [...]
David Cameron’s green Tories
Friday, April 4th, 2008Amazing, that the Tories have come out against BAA and BA business plans, although they lay blame squarely at the Labour Governments feet, naturally. Well maybe this is just the same old political point scoring we know and love, but the fact that a major political party takes on the issue in this way is [...]
Reasons to be free from flying
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007I thought I would post some of the recent reasons that people have given for being free from flying. This is in part a response to an email earlier in the week from a good friend after he read an article in the Times, “Airlines to make billions from CO2 trade” by the Transport Correspondent, [...]
Why do something today when you can put it off til tomorrow?
Friday, November 23rd, 2007BAA proudly announces the advent of a new runway and terminal 6 (although silent about the village that needs to be bulldozed) It seems the future is always the best place to deal with urgent issues that otherwise require us to address things in our own lives. At least, that is, according to many economists [...]
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